This paper presents the design of a JPEG Encoder which exploits this feature. We propose a mixed HW/SW architecture, where most compute-intensive components of the application are mapped to application-specific HW cores. These cores can be alternated on the FPGA, by means of internal dynamic reconfiguration. Our purpose is to describe a real-world application of reconfigurable computing, illustrating how this approach allows to save area with negligible performance overhead.
Citation:
Antonino Tumeo, Matteo Monchiero, Gianluca Palermo, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Donatella Sciuto, "An Internal Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration Implementation of the JPEG Encoder for Low-Cost FPGAsb," isvlsi, pp.449-450, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI '07), 2007